Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast made me as the clay; and wilt thou bring me into dust again?

Bible References

Thou hast

Genesis 2:7
And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and man became a living soul.
Genesis 3:19
in the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread until thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken, for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.
Isaiah 45:9
Woe unto him that strives with his Maker! Let the potsherd strive with the potsherds of the earth. Shall the clay say to him that fashions it, What doth thou make; thy work has no form?
Isaiah 64:8
But now, O LORD, thou art our father; we are the clay, and thou our potter; such that we all are the work of thy hands.
Jeremiah 18:6
O house of Israel, can I not do with you as this potter? saith the LORD. Behold, as the clay is in the potter's hand, so are ye in my hand, O house of Israel.

Into dust again

Job 17:14
I have said to the pit, Thou art my father; to the worms, my mother, and my sister.
Psalm 22:15
My strength is dried up like a potsherd; and my tongue cleaves to my jaws; and thou hast brought me into the dust of death.
Psalm 90:3
Thou dost turn unto man until he is broken and thou saith, Become converted, ye sons of Adam.
Ecclesiastes 12:7
and the dust returns to the earth as it was before and the spirit returns unto God who gave it.
Romans 9:21
Has not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour and another unto dishonour?